Kerala: Hospitals directed to certify brain death as mandatory
Thiruvananthapuram, May 28 (UNI) Kerala Health Department has directed all the hospitals in the State to certify brain death as mandatory as part of promoting organ donation.
The health department directed the hospitals to confirm the brain death in order to proceed organ transplantation under Transplant and Procurement Management (TPM) facility that is to be introduced in all the government medical colleges to seek the permission of patients' relatives for organ donation, sources said here on Tuesday.
'The department aims to facilitate treatment for the deserved rather than denying it in the name of brain deaths'.
Doctors will be provided with expert training under the guidance of Donational Transplantation institute (DTI) in Spain and Kerala Network of Organ Sharing (KNOS).
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